OOP: Prophecy - Why Believe It?

[aussiemarg]

No: HPFGUIDX 63610



SNIP
> I finally finished the book last night and the question I was left 
> with was why does anyone believe the prophecy?  I mean it was 
given 
> to DD by Sybill Trewalney, the one teacher at Hogwarts that can't 
> teach.  She never "saw" anything else in her time at Hogwarts(that 
we 
> know about so far) and by all student accounts (and DD's smile 
when 
> Harry said he fell asleep in class in a previous book) she knew 
squat 
> about predicting the future.
SNIP 

I believe the prophecy is real. In PoA (ch 22; p 311 in Australian 
edition) Harry tells Dumbledore about Trelawney's prediction - that 
Voldemort's servant would rejoin him and V would rise greater and 
more terrible before - and asks "Was she making a real prediction?"

DD ..."That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should 
offer her a pay rise".

Obvious now that her first real prediction was the one referred to 
in OOP.

DD believed the first prediction was real - otherwise he would not 
have offered the job. Also, her tone of voice is different for these 
two "real" predictions than her usual phoney-baloney predictions.

Apart from that, yeah, she knows about as much about predicting the 
future as I do. 

Pax,
Margaret